Presence of mind Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun self-control in a crisis; ability to say or do the right thing in an emergency

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  1. that state of the mind in which all its faculties are alert, prompt, and acting harmoniously in obedience to the will, enabling one to reach, as it were spontaneously or by intuition, just conclusions in sudden emergencies.

Webster 1913